ESU soccer player named to Academic All-America team

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Nov 29, 2012 at 12:01 AM

EAST STROUDSBURG — East Stroudsburg University junior back Khriswayne Wallace has been named to the Capital One Academic All-America second team for the 2012 men's soccer season, it was announced Wednesday.

EAST STROUDSBURG — East Stroudsburg University junior back Khriswayne Wallace has been named to the Capital One Academic All-America second team for the 2012 men's soccer season, it was announced Wednesday.

Wallace, a Business Management major with a 3.96 grade-point average, was named to the Academic All-District first team for the second straight season this fall, earning a spot on the Academic All-America ballot.

He is the fifth men's soccer player to be named Academic All-America in the last 10 years. He joins Nemanja Nikolic (2011), Toric Robinson (2009), Jorge Chapoy (2003) and Kamar Samuels (2002, 2003).

Wallace started 14 games at center back this year, missing three due to injury, and has started 47 games in his three-year career.

Wallace is the 27th ESU student-athlete to earn Academic All-America status. The Warriors had five Academic All-Americans last year in Nikolic, men's track and field athletes Dan Johnson and Ian Melhorn, and women's track and field and cross country runners Corinne Fitzgerald and Rose Mascoli.

EAST STROUDSBURG — East Stroudsburg University is 12th in the standings for the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference's 2012-13 Dixon Trophy through the fall sports championships, it was announced by the conference on Wednesday.

The Warriors were the runnerup in men's cross country for 15 Dixon Trophy points, and made the PSAC semifinals in women's soccer (13 points). They also netted 10 points for a seventh-place finish in women's cross country and 9.5 points in football after tying for third in the PSAC East.

The Dixon Trophy will be awarded following the 2012-13 academic year to the institution whose athletic program earns the best average finish in conference championships and/or regular season play.

This year marks the first time that the average finish will be used to determine the Dixon Trophy recipient. In previous seasons, each school's top 12 finishes (six men's, six women's) were used to calculate the final standings.

ESU is 12th through the fall sports season for the second straight year. The Warriors were 10th in the final standings last year on the strength of a PSAC championship in men's basketball and a runnerup finish in women's outdoor track and field.

ESU was sixth in 2010-11, its best showing since placing fourth in 1995-96. The Warriors have been between sixth and 11th in the conference for 16 consecutive seasons.

IUP and Shippensburg, which played for the PSAC football championship, rank first and second through the fall season.